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- catalog abstract "Guerrilla-priests and liberation theology are not new phenomena in Nicaragua. Ever since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholic Church leaders have played a major role in that country's politics. The result, John Kirk writes, is a polarized church, one with a progressive minority at loggerheads with the conservative hierarchy. Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the forty-year period of Somocismo and the Sandinista period (1979-90) that followed. This social revolution - blending nationalism, Marxism, and Catholicism - dared to be different, he claims, and accordingly it paid the price. Kirk wrote this book following three trips to Nicaragua during the 1980s, when he witnessed firsthand the social polarization occurring at the time. But the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nicaraguan politics is not exceptional, he says: "Most - if not all - religions are also encumbered with socio-political concerns that go beyond the essentially 'religious.'"".
- catalog alternative "Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.".
- catalog contributor b3661720.
- catalog coverage "Nicaragua Church history.".
- catalog coverage "Nicaragua Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Phillip Berryman -- In Search of Stability: The Church in Nicaragua -- 1. In Search of an Identity: The Church in Nicaragua, 1503-1936 -- 2. The Institutional Church under Somoza: Accommodation and Complicity (1936-1969) -- 3. From Dictatorship to Revolution: The Church's Response (1970-1979) -- 4. From Jubilation to Despair (1979-1982) -- 5. Church-State Relations at Their Nadir (1983-1985) -- 6. In Search of Reconciliation? Church-State Relations, 1985-1990 -- Prophetic Stance or Political Accommodation?".
- catalog description "Guerrilla-priests and liberation theology are not new phenomena in Nicaragua. Ever since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholic Church leaders have played a major role in that country's politics. The result, John Kirk writes, is a polarized church, one with a progressive minority at loggerheads with the conservative hierarchy. Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the forty-year period of Somocismo and the Sandinista period (1979-90) that followed. This social revolution - blending nationalism, Marxism, and Catholicism - dared to be different, he claims, and accordingly it paid the price. Kirk wrote this book following three trips to Nicaragua during the 1980s, when he witnessed firsthand the social polarization occurring at the time. But the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nicaraguan politics is not exceptional, he says: "Most - if not all - religions are also encumbered with socio-political concerns that go beyond the essentially 'religious.'"".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 246 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813011388 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida,".
- catalog spatial "Nicaragua Church history.".
- catalog spatial "Nicaragua Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Nicaragua".
- catalog subject "282/.7285 20".
- catalog subject "BX1442.2 .K57 1992".
- catalog subject "Catholic Church Nicaragua History.".
- catalog subject "Church and state Nicaragua History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Phillip Berryman -- In Search of Stability: The Church in Nicaragua -- 1. In Search of an Identity: The Church in Nicaragua, 1503-1936 -- 2. The Institutional Church under Somoza: Accommodation and Complicity (1936-1969) -- 3. From Dictatorship to Revolution: The Church's Response (1970-1979) -- 4. From Jubilation to Despair (1979-1982) -- 5. Church-State Relations at Their Nadir (1983-1985) -- 6. In Search of Reconciliation? Church-State Relations, 1985-1990 -- Prophetic Stance or Political Accommodation?".
- catalog title "Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.".
- catalog title "Politics and the Catholic church in Nicaragua / John M. Kirk ; foreword by Phillip Berryman.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".